[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 99 (Thursday, June 13, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3594]
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  SA 591. Mr. CORNYN (for himself and Ms. Duckworth) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1790, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2020 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of part II of subtitle F of title V, add the 
     following:

     SEC. 582. MILITARY SPOUSE PROFESSIONAL LICENSE RECIPROCITY.

       (a) Finding.--Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) Military spouses continue to experience difficulties in 
     transferring their professional licenses from State to State.
       (2) Professional license reciprocity exists sporadically 
     across various States.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that 
     the States should take appropriate actions to ensure that a 
     military spouse may engage in a business or occupation for 
     which a professional license is required without obtaining 
     the applicable professional license in the gaining State if 
     the spouse is currently licensed in good standing by another 
     State that has professional licensing requirements that are 
     substantially equivalent to the requirements for the license 
     in such gaining State.
       (c) Report.--Not later than 120 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit 
     to Congress a report setting forth the results of a study, 
     undertaken for purposes of the report, on the feasibility and 
     advisability of the transference by military spouses of 
     professional licenses for various professions from State to 
     State. The report shall set forth the following:
       (1) A list of the States that currently permit military 
     spouses to transfer such licenses, and shall specify for each 
     such State each profession for which such a license is so 
     transferrable.
       (2) A ranking of the States by transferability of licenses 
     by military spouses, with appropriate weight being afforded 
     to various mechanisms for transfer, including licensure by 
     endorsement, temporary or provisional licensing, and 
     expedited application for licenses.
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